10 Ottawa residents explain how they think about voting
Over the course of the campaign, the Citizen's Bruce Deachman asked 10 Ottawa-area residents how they approach elections and voting. Their responses were both varied and insightful. Take a look:
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For Brad Fisher of Sandy Hill, it's about saving the country from Donald Trump. Fisher is a regular voter who doesn't necessarily favour the same party each election. But this time, he's definitely focused on how events in the U.S. could affect Canada. 'As one of my colleagues said, if we don't have a country, then it really doesn't matter after that,' he told the Citizen.
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'Young voters don't have any idea how fragile democracy is,' says Vicky Assad of Kanata. 'There's a level of apathy that I don't understand, and that's really what my message is.' She urges everyone to cast a ballot.
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Twenty-one-year-old uOttawa student Brendan Saunders says so many issues and discussions are highly politicized these day: 'No one is actually advocating for just genuine civic engagement.' Social media is one culprit, and it's turning off young people from getting involved in elections, he says.
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